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Issei Baseball - The Story of the First Japanese American Ballplayers (Hardcover)
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Issei Baseball - The Story of the First Japanese American Ballplayers (Hardcover)
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2021 SABR Baseball Research Award 2021 Independent Publisher Book
Awards, Silver Medal Winner Baseball has been called America's true
melting pot, a game that unites us as a people. Issei Baseball is
the story of the pioneers of Japanese American baseball, Harry
Saisho, Ken Kitsuse, Tom Uyeda, Tozan Masko, Kiichi Suzuki, and
others-young men who came to the United States to start a new life
but found bigotry and discrimination. In 1905 they formed a
baseball club in Los Angeles and began playing local amateur teams.
Inspired by the Waseda University baseball team's 1905 visit to the
West Coast, they became the first Japanese professional baseball
club on either side of the Pacific and barnstormed across the
American Midwest in 1906 and 1911. Tens of thousands came to see
"how the minions of the Mikado played the national pastime." As
they played, the Japanese earned the respect of their opponents and
fans, breaking down racial stereotypes. Baseball became a bridge
between the two cultures, bringing Japanese and Americans together
through the shared love of the game. Issei Baseball focuses on the
small group of men who formed the first professional and
semiprofessional Japanese baseball clubs. These players' story
tells the history of early Japanese American baseball, including
the placement of Saisho, Kitsuse, and their families in relocation
camps during World War II and the Japanese immigrant experience.
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